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(read the articles linked at http://911blogger.com)

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War is the First Casualty of Truth

By Kevin Barrett, http://mujca.com

All war is founded on the lie: "The Other is not like us." The truth is that we all share the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. If we know the truth, we cannot kill. That is why war will be the first casualty of truth.

(inspired by Eduardo Galeano)

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Bravo 911truth.org!

By Kevin Barrett, http://mujca.com

As a representative of "the other group" behind the recent 9/11 truth conference in Chicago, I can sum up the weekend's events in two words:  Bravo 911truth.org!

The conference 9/11: Revealing the Truth, Reclaiming Our Future was co-sponsored by my organization, the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth (http://mujca.com), and received considerable support from many other groups. This stunningly successful event, whose attendance more than doubled expectations, was a masterpiece of collaboration and cooperation.

But as the glitter of that amazing weekend in Oz fades, and we find ourselves back in whatever sleepy but slowly awakening corner of Kansas we happen to live in, we all can take heart in a little-noticed but important development: 911truth.org has proved itself the effective umbrella organization of the 9/11 truth movement.

Yes, I know there are still a few folks who prefer to remain out in the rain. And yes, I admit that many people already considered 911truth.org the leading activist umbrella group years ago. But the June 2006 Chicago conference marks a quantum leap to a new level of unity, optimism and enthusiasm in our movement-and the good people affiliated with 911truth.org, thanks to Herculean go-to organizer Janice Matthews, and savvy, indefatigable visionary Gabriel Day, among others, deserve a good share of the credit.

The success of the Chicago conference answered three questions about 911truth.org: Are they competent enough to pull off logistically daunting feats? Are they audacious enough to follow the evidence all the way to full MIHOP (made it happen on purpose), the complete-inside-job thesis? Are their diplomatic skills delicate enough to bring together the many chaotic, all-too-often-quarreling factions of the 9/11 truth movement and create a coalition that could actually win?

While the final 9/11 truth victory still awaits us, I think it is safe to say that these questions have been answered. Despite a few technical glitches, the Chicago conference was, overall, an organizational masterpiece. The Embassy Suites Hotel provided the perfect physical forum for a sixty-hour 9/11 truth marathon. The march in downtown Chicago on Friday generated excitement, and drew a positive response from about half the passersby, with very few overtly negative responses. The more than fifty events, led by an even larger number of presenters, were by all accounts high-quality and successfully choreographed. That a tiny handful of activists could pull this off on a minuscule budget is a minor miracle.

The Chicago conference also proved, once and for all, that 911truth.org is willing to follow the truth wherever it leads, and that the 9/11 truth movement's consensus is that it leads to MIHOP (see the Tarpley statement following this article, adapted by acclamation at the Chicago conference).

Top US officials did not simply "let it happen on purpose" - they did it.  Like MUJCA-NET, 911truth.org has always taken a "big tent" approach and remained open to all sincere truth seekers. Perhaps more than MUJCA-NET, 911truth.org has traditionally been wary of getting too far out ahead of its main audience, the not-yet-converted. But now, with almost half the US population believing the official version of 9/11 is a coverup, and with the preponderance of the evidence, and most of the 9/11 truth community, supporting MIHOP, 911truth.org is right where it should be: in the middle of our movement, speaking truth to power audaciously yet effectively.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, 911truth.org has shown itself capable of pulling together a fractious, wildly diverse bunch of truth-seekers and truth-speakers. 9/11 truth supporters hail from all points of the geographical and ideological compass. From revolutionary socialists to libertarian Republicans, from pious Muslims, Jews, Christians, Buddhists, and Hindus to avowed atheists, from rabidly patriotic military veterans to pacifist hippies, from the hinterlands of rural America to the capitals of Europe, Africa and Asia, this is a movement that includes just about every kind of person under the sun.  Harnessing all that chaotic energy, and turning all these seemingly incompatible people towards a common goal, would strike many as an impossible dream. But in Chicago, the impossible dream began to look like reality.

As a Muslim co-founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11Truth, I know something about trying to bring seemingly incompatible people together in pursuit of an audaciously utopian vision. I have worked with the religiously agnostic Morgan Reynolds, who is as outspoken a MIHOP believer as anyone could hope to find, as well as the devout Jew and 9/11 agnostic Rabbi Michael Lerner, who politically leans as hard to the social-democratic left as Reynolds leans to the libertarian right. From moderately pro-Zionist Jews like Rabbi Lerner to Zio-skeptic Muslims like Enver Masud (and myself, truth be told) my MUJCA work has forced me to embrace people of seemingly incompatible backgrounds and worldviews.

Even more, it has led me to respect those who can unite a group of extremely diverse people-because I now know how hard that can be.  911truth.org, more than any other activist organization in our movement, has shown it can do that.

It is time to scrap the petty squabbling, check our egos at the door, and get to work on strategies that can carry us to victory. It is time for sensible people of goodwill, especially those of demonstrable competence and integrity, to join forces synergistically and use the Chicago miracle as a springboard to take this movement to a whole new level. Having been blessed with the amazing opportunity to help 911truth.org and its many allies put together the Chicago event, I call on others to consider assisting with future efforts. If we can pull this off with a few relatively inexperienced people operating on a shoestring budget, imagine what a larger, adequately-funded team with experience under its belt could accomplish. If you have skills, energy or funds to contribute, please help us make each succeeding event another quantum leap for 9/11 truth.

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* * *for more great coverage of Chicago, see http://911blogger.com* * *


9/11 TRUTH - THE KEY TO STOPPING WORLD WAR III

RESOLUTION SUBMITTED TO THE 911 CHICAGO TRUTH CONFERENCE, JUNE 2-4, 2006

Under the Cheney doctrine and the Pentagon's Global Strike, US forces are now on the verge of a surprise attack, quite possibly in nuclear form, against Iran. As Philip Giraldi wrote last July, the Cheney doctrine prescribes that this attack will come in the wake of a new 9/11 or new Gulf of Tonkin incident. With the US and UK stalled at the UN by Russian and Chinese rejection of their plans for aggression, all indications are that such a new 9/11 is being actively prepared by rogue networks within the US intelligence community of CIA, NSA, DIA, NSC, Pentagon, and State Department, plus allied and privatized capabilities. The neocons, many of whom face early criminal indictment, are opting for a flight forward into war.

With the visits during late May of Israel's Ehud Olmert and Britain's Tony Blair to Washington, the aggressor coalition seems to be ready. Cheney's controllers now require only a pretext, a provocation to justify their attack. Will they attack under the cover of the soccer World Cup, to be held in Germany during June? An attack in Europe would help recruit coalition partners. Will they sink a US warship in the Gulf? In this case, a third country could do the job, with the blame going to Iran. As in the case of 9/11, they will manufacture the provocation they need for the next phase of the war of civilizations. Arabs and Moslems will be involved as patsies - under the label of Hezbollah, Iran, etc. An attack on Iran will kill Chinese in the oil fields and Russians in the nuclear reactor sites.

It will begin the inexorable slide into World War III. Neocon fascist madmen Lieber and Press, writing in the March-April issue of Foreign Affairs, promise that a thermonuclear first strike against Russia and/or China is eminently feasible. The same neocon networks which promised the Iraqi cakewalk are now promising a nuclear cakewalk. This time the result could be the incineration of the US and large parts of the world. The neocons must be driven from public life, even as the September criminals are brought to justice.

The attack on Iran has little to do with unproven allegations that Teheran might acquire a nuclear device. Israel alone has nearly 500 nuclear weapons of all types, plus an ABM system. The insanity of the Anglo-American elites reflects the death agony of the US dollar. As Iran, Russia, Venezuela and even Norway prepare to buy and sell oil in rubles, euros, and through barter deals, hundreds of billions of dollars of central bank reserves are poised to quit the greenback. The result would be a dollar panic, with dollar owners stampeding towards the exits. The US currency might lose between 25% and 75% of its value. With emerging market currencies and stock markets crashing, the tropism of the US-UK elites is toward war in a bid to retain world domination.

Bush retains the support of some 35% of the US population. With this 35% he can resist impeachment and wage war indefinitely. These are persons who have accepted the government's nightmare vision of 9/11. They are terrorized, literally scared out of their wits. They are relatively impervious to the many valid arguments which can be made against the Iraq war, against Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, torture, secret prisons, illegal renditions, NSA wiretaps, and totalitarian police state policies. These they regard as necessities of a war forced up the US by a foreign aggressor. The only hope of reaching these people, and thus of attrition and erosion of Bush's base, is to demolish and discredit the 9/11 myth itself. The attacks came from the US secret government, not from Bin Laden's cave. The Charlie Sheen episode shows that the 9/11 issue offers by far the greatest bang for the buck - it is the ultimate weapon against Bush. Only a sustained series of explosive revelations and exposures of 9/11 truth can cripple the Bush regime, roll up the rogue networks, and block the new 9/11 and October surprise scenarios. It is here that the treachery of the gatekeepers emerges. Left liberal figures like Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, Michael Moore, The Nation magazine, and most of Air America have stubbornly parroted the Bush-FBI lies about 9/11. There are right gatekeepers too, like antiwar.com and many of its writers. The gatekeepers must catch up with the truth or enter the dust bin of history.

But what about 9/11 truth? Within the 9/11 truth movement, some still debate unanswered questions, or the incompetence and negligence theory.

Others continue to embrace LIHOP, the notion that the Bush regime Let It Happen On Purpose. In our view, these approaches are gravely deficient because they all accept the key point of the government's demagogy:  they assume that some such independent entity as "al Qaeda" really exists, and really has the capability of producing the results seen on 9/11. This is precisely the Big Lie we must reject. "Al Qaeda" could not subsist without the support of CIA (and of Britain's MI-6, as David Shayler's reports show). "Al Qaeda" is a wholly owned subsidiary of US-UK intelligence. The true face of "al Qaeda" was that of the psychotic patsy Moussaoui, who was deemed a delusional paranoid schizophrenic by psychiatric experts, or of Richard Reid, the mentally retarded derelict produced by the MI-6 school for patsies at Finsbury mosque in London. Moussaoui claimed they were going to attack the White House with a 747. In reality, this pathetic pair could hardly have hijacked a pushcart.

There is no substitute for MIHOP (the idea that US government forces Made It Happen On Purpose). As David Ray Griffin recently observed, "It is already possible to know, beyond a reasonable doubt, one very important thing:  the destruction of the World Trade Center was an inside job, orchestrated by terrorists within our own government." Morgan Reynolds and other members of the Scholars for 9/11 Truth also argue this point. Our European colleagues have been MIHOP from the outset. The 9/11 truth movement should now unite on the basis of MIHOP, and put aside uncertainty.
 
Anything short of full political MIHOP leaves us with a powerful enemy and the need to wage the fraudulent war on terror in some better form. Anything short of MIHOP is ultimately compatible with support for Democrats who want to continue the Afghan/Iraq/Iran war if they seize control of the Congress this November, or with the presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton, who is running as a bigger and better warmonger than Bush, while promising to extort European troops and European funding which Bush cannot provide. By failing to filibuster Hayden for the CIA, the Democratic Party has again proclaimed itself feckless. The Republican Party may break up over the immigration issue. The Democrats may break up if they attempt to prolong the wars. 9/11 truth can be a catalyst for a progressive outcome of the looming crisis of the political system.

If the new 9/11 comes, it will likely be under the guise of a government drill or exercise. As Operation Mongoose was used to bootleg the JFK assassination, and as Nine Lives was used to conduit the Hinckley hit on Reagan in 1981, we have seen how the 9/11 events were run through the fifteen plus drills going on that morning. We have seen the London explosions of July 7, 2005 carried out under the aegis of Atlantic Blue (UK), Topoff 3 (US), and Triple Play (Canada), plus Visor Consultants. Our movement was able to block Sudden Response 05 in Charleston, South Carolina, last August. It shall be the policy of our movement to monitor, identify, expose, denounce, and shut down WMD drills and exercises which threaten to go live in the form of real attacks anywhere in the world. It is our urgent duty to inoculate populations against this notorious trick of the rogue networks.

The 9/11 truth movement may currently include as many as 5,000 activists.  To pull the world back from the brink of general war, it is imperative that this be expanded a thousand fold, to 5 million. Five million activists influencing a periphery of 20 to 25 million activists - leftists, progressives, conservatives, communitarians, independents - could shift the political constellation, starting with the left wing of the Democratic Party. As for conservative 9/11 truth activists, they are the adversaries Bush-Cheney fear most. The Pentagon's 9/11 tape release has proven a fiasco. The Moussaoui jury refused to execute. Recent calls for 9/11 truth by the late William Sloan Coffin, Rabbi Michael Lerner, and above all the new Zogby poll showing that 42% of Americans reject the 9/11 commission report, with 47% wanting a Congressional probe or an independent international truth commission, show that the massive expansion of our movement is within reach.

Accordingly, we commit ourselves to the following actions over the remaining months of 2006:

The Vermont Green Party is the first state party to call for the impeachment of Bush-Cheney based on their 9/11 crimes, with the first article against Bush for misprision of high treason. This approach should be replicated everywhere. Our movement is the cutting edge of impeachment, and we must guarantee that the impeachment groundswell includes the 9/11 element without which it will falter.

* We will take back the air waves from the corporate media with a relentless barrage of phone calls to C-SPAN, Air America, and to every television and radio talk show in this country and beyond, all for the purpose of placing 9/11 truth at the top of the national agenda. This guerrilla war can bring our message to tens of millions of people every day, circumventing the gatekeepers.

* We will support candidates of any party or of no party who embrace 9/11truth. We will focus national attention on key candidacies like those of Carol Brouillet for Congress in California, Bob Bowman for Congress in Florida, Craig Hill in Vermont, and others. We also wish to direct international attention to the candidacy of Irish 9/11 truth movement leader Morgan Stack to the Dail (Parliament of the Republic of Ireland) for the district of Cork South Central.

* We will continue our surveillance of drills and exercises to raise the political price the invisible government must pay if it seeks to carry out new crimes.

* While stressing that the MIHOP historical and political analysis of 9/11 is already conclusive, we urge that 9/11 deep throats and whistleblowers come forward, both to testify and to produce additional written or recorded evidence of courtroom quality on the scale of the Watergate tapes that can put the September criminals behind bars.

* In the event that Bush-Cheney seek to impose martial law, we will agitate for an open-ended general strike of the civil rights movement, the labor movement, immigrant groups, minorities, students, and all persons of good will to demand the restoration of Constitutional rule.
 
We call for a united front of groups and organizations for action on these points.

THIS RESOLUTION IS SPONSORED BY:

DC911TRUTH.ORG

VERMONT GREEN PARTY

VERMONT COALITION FOR 9/11 TRUTH

CONCORDIA FOUNDATION NEW YORK, NY

PROGRESSIVE PRESS

JOSHUA TREE CA

9ELEVEN.INFO

SEATTLE 9/11 VISIBILITY PROJECT

9/11 VISIBILITY PROJECT IDAHO

9/11 TRUTH LA

IRISH 9/11 TRUTH MOVEMENT

BURLINGTON 9/11 ACTION